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Position:Home>Poetry> How do you feel about people giving opinions on others' poetry?Question: How do you feel about people giving opinions on others' poetry!? I only ask because I'm surprised so many people care what others think of their poems!. I don't really care, but I do ask for interpretations, like this one: http://answers!.yahoo!.com/question/index;!.!.!.
Feel free to answer this, too: http://answers!.yahoo!.com/question/index;!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Poetry is just like any other form of literature!. The fact that it has been romanticized as this private, personal form of expression in recent years does not exclude it from the same criticism and critique that any other form of writing typically endures!. Most people write because they want to leave something behind, but out of the millions of people who have ever written poetry in the history of the world, there are very few who are great!. Not everyone can be the next Shakespeare, or the next Edgar Allen Poe!. But most wish they could be!. So they share their work, hoping to be recognized as something great!. Something that will endure after they've died, so they can leave a mark on the world!. In general, the written word is just that--the hope for immortality!. Ancient cave-dwellers first started drawing pictures on the walls for people to find later, to understand and know what their life was like!. Later, pictograms and hieroglyphs recorded the life-stories of kings and anyone rich enough who thought they should be immortalized!. It doesn't matter if the poem is great or crap!. People want other people to know they existed, and so there is an almost compulsive need to share it!. As long as their work leaves enough of an impression on a reader that the work is remembered, they, by proxy of their work, will be remembered!. And thus!.!.!. they live forever!. Have you ever read Shakespeare's sonnet 18!? It begins "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"!. The final couplet sums it up perfectly!. "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee!." The "this" is the poem itself!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I think that they can say how they feel about it but it really doesn't matter because you wright what you feel and the person reading it may not feel the say way!. It is still nice to hear their opnion about it as long as it constructive criticism instead of just bad mouthing it for no reason!. I think I prefer interpretations also because you may get a better conversation about the subject at hand, rather than them just saying "It's cool"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com When one writing a poem one is so much involved with the imagery and the inner vision one has, that its meaning and intellectual underrstanding, till some one objectively sees from outside and gives us, one is quite oblivious about it!. it is said, that the critics of Shakespeare who made Shakes peare great ! In fact it is Bradley who revealed Shakespere to us!. Thus writing a poem is one thing, but its appreciation, its taste, its sweetness, - everybody should learn from an aesthetic and intellectual appeal !. this brings about a katharsis of our emotional part in us!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I enjoy giving advice to other poets!. I also enjoy getting feedback on my own work!. I guess it is a nice two way street!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |